Natalie Hudson

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Natalie Hudson

Associate Professor; Director of Human Rights Studies Program

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Natalie Florea Hudson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Dayton, where she also serves as the Director of the Human Rights Studies Program. She specializes in gender and international relations, the politics of human rights, human security, and international law and organization.

Her book, Gender, Human Security and the UN: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge, 2009) examines the organizational dynamics of women's activism in the United Nations system and how women have come to embrace and been impacted by the security discourse in their work for rights and equality.

She is a co-author of Global Politics (McGraw-Hill 2013) and numerous articles appearing in journals, such as International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of Human Rights, International Journal, Simulation and Gaming, and Global Change, Peace and Security. Dr. Hudson has also served as a consultant to the European Union, the United Nations and various peacebuilding NGOs on work related to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda.

With the support of a McGrath Human Rights Fellowship (2012-2014), her current research centers on the deployment and impact of female military and police personnel in UN peacekeeping missions. She is also working on a project evaluating national and regional action plans aimed at implementing the WPS Agenda.

Research Consultant, UN Women, United Nations, International. Invited to conduct research and write a background paper reviewing national and regional implementation strategies of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the subsequent Women, Peace and Security Resolutions. The paper was drafted and presented to a group of global experts at a UN Technical Meeting in November 2013, where experts were invited to contribute to the revisions of the paper. The final paper and a final report from the meeting were made publicly available by UN Women. (June 2013 - November 2013)